One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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As you are, so is the world.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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